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Assam and Meghalaya write to CBI to take over Mukroh firing incident

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Shillong, Nov 22: Deputy Chief Minister in-charge of Home (Police), Prestone Tynsong, on Wednesday informed that both Assam and Meghalaya governments have written to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) with regard to the Mukroh firing incident.

“We have already written a letter; in fact, from the state government and even the Assam government also they have done it,” he said.

On September 30, governments of Meghalaya and Assam agreed to handed the Mukroh Firing incident to the CBI as a “confidence building measure”.

Deputy CM Tynsong said on Wednesday that the “Ball now is in the CBI court”.

The Mukroh firing incident took place on n November 22, 2022, when the Assam Forest Protection Force fired on Mukroh village, killing six people and injuring two. The victims included five Meghalaya residents and a forest guard from Assam.

The firing incident took place in Mukroh village, which both Assam and Meghalaya claim as their own. The border dispute between the two states dates back to January 21, 1972, when the Assam Reorganisation Act, 1971, separated Meghalaya from Assam.

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